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Hi everyone! I was down for surgery and lost a lot of time, so small update this month. I tried to pull in a roadmap feature that would present interesting decisions but be quick to implement and test. Also had some awesome Collateral Souls let’s play videos from Huw2k8 so if you are new here and want to check out the game it’s a great way to get a look.

New Features

Unstable Portals – High risk high reward floor exits

Certain floors starting at floor 4 will now have unstable portals as alternate exits

Using these portals will provide the player with a bonus perk

Using these portals will also increase the difficulty of all future creatures

Changes

Ranged attack and target cycling controls now on UI for easy discovery

Status plaques now hide themselves when not relevant, opening up much of the side panel UI for future features

There have been some features I’ve wanted to do for a while to make the game more approachable to new players. After all the Coffee-break Roguelike genre is meant to be a low barrier of entry. So this month’s update is all about the little things that help guide new players from confusion into mastery.

New Features

Sprites! There is now a tileset setting in the settings menu. There is still the original ascii form and the (now default) sprite tileset. Hopefully this allows players to get their bearings more easily when looking at the playfield.

Perk Guide – A new menu that lets you read up on all perks in the game and their relationships with other perks.

Changes

Score System Reworked- The old score system promoted getting farther as doing better, even if getting farther at the expense of future survivability. The new score system is much more focused on promoting masterful play and is tightly measured and transparent so players can see what they are doing and how it effects their score. The score system is also now setup to be on a 0-1000 scale, 1000 being a perfect game. So scores are much easier to understand than their previous exponential ramp.

Due to the changes in scoring, your high score table will be reset with this update.

Bug Fixes

Tentacle Whip visuals reworked to be less taxing on the system and look more tentacle-y. Better performance but should also mitigate rare draw resource crashes related to the effect.

Carnage no longer try to use ranged attacks even though they are terrible at them

World collapse memory load greatly reduced by simplifying the visual effects. Should prevent any memory related crashes during the event

Added World collapse ON/OFF setting as a failsafe if the event is still problematic it can be disabled. The transition to the next floor still occurs but the mini game is skipped and fair amount of XP is granted to make up for the mini game being skipped.